soft-verge
noun1
UK An unsealed strip along the edge of a sealed road.
- I wrestled with the wheel, snaked her out of the skid after spinning round and then - horror of horrors - a rear wheel struck a soft verge, the car overturned and there was I, semi-conscious but, as far as I can recall, in no acute pain.1957, Stirling Moss, In the Track of Speed, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 82:
- Perhaps the idea was that I would drop Mum in London, then drive back with Helen, as we could pull into a secluded soft-verge off the M1...and...hold hands?1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 77: